In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Knowledge increases responsibility.

Take any two-year-old through a car wash and their skulls are blown. FLAPS! FOAM! ROLLING THINGS! It's the closest they'll ever get to being inside a working spaceship.

No valentines from the cats again.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever.

Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so.